Family tree Westmaas en Lagendijk » Willem Wesmaas (1896-1992)

Day of marriage August 2, 1922

• The temperature on August 2, 1922 was between 9.1 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1922: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.0 million citizens.
  • February 2 » Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
  • April 24 » The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
  • June 30 » In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes–Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.
  • October 19 » British Conservative MPs vote to terminate the coalition government with the Liberal Party.
  • November 15 » At least 300 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • December 6 » One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.

Day of death August 12, 1992

• The temperature on August 12, 1992 was between 13.7 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1992: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 15.1 million citizens.
  • January 20 » Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashes into a mountain near Strasbourg, France killing 87 of the 96 people on board.
  • April 5 » Peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić are killed on the Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo, becoming the first casualties of the Bosnian War.
  • May 7 » Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
  • September 12 » NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
  • September 14 » The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
  • September 25 » NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1988 » Jean-Michel Basquiat, American painter (b. 1960)
• 1989 » William Shockley, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1990 » Dorothy Mackaill, English-American actress (b. 1903)
• 1992 » John Cage, American composer and theorist (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Mark Gruenwald, American author and illustrator (b. 1953)
• 1996 » Victor Ambartsumian, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1908)